Article
The heat is on: Genetic adaptation to urbanization mediated by thermal tolerance and body size.
Global change biology - 1 Dec 2017
Brans Kristien I, Jansen Mieke, Vanoverbeke Joost, Tüzün Nedim, Stoks Robby, De Meester Luc
Abstract excerpt
Worldwide, urbanization leads to tremendous anthropogenic environmental alterations, causing strong selection pressures on populations of animals and plants. Although a key feature of urban areas is their higher temperature ("urban heat islands"), adaptive thermal evolution in organisms inhabiting urban areas has rarely been studied. We tested for evolution of a higher heat tolerance (CTMAX ) in urban populations...
Topics
- Acclimatization
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Body Size
- Daphnia
- Ecosystem
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Hot Temperature
- Lakes
- Urbanization